How much revenue did BUTCHER make?

$162k–$436k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BUTCHER sell?

Q: How many copies did BUTCHER sell?

59k to 96k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–96k; $162k–$436k after Steam's cut $295k–$671k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid BUTCHER and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BUTCHER's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–10.5M

best case 25.5M (Call of Duty®)

Games like BUTCHER

A typical game among these

≈ 5.8M–10.5M copies

≈ $66.8M–$94.1M after Steam's cut

from ~184k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Call of Duty® at ≈ 19.4M–31.5M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 47k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 165k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (7 of 8) and Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Co-op + Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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